Karl Baron

I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my kid to play with.

Basically just draw colorful cards and link between them to make an kid adventure game.

From what I've seen, SuperCard and HyperStudio both pivoted to "more advanced HyperCard for people who outgrew it" to handle things like advanced multimedia and resizable windows and might have a learning curve

Modern things are fine too as long as they're not exploitative

#VintageApple

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Show threadcakemix11h ago
@kalleboo I want a mondern day Macromedia Director. Dang that app let me do so much.
Show threadDr Dan Cutting11h ago
@kalleboo There’s Decker. https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker Very retro B&W but my daughter had a lot of fun making stacks like I used to back in the day.
Decker by Internet Janitor

A multimedia sketchbook

itch.io
Show threadvga25610h ago
@kalleboo it’s frustrating that Decker is *almost* that kind of tool. and then it becomes enmired in all of the frustrations and scripting tangles that characterize the dark side of hypercard. i’d be curious what your kiddo would make of it. personally, as much as i love that it exists, i found it awful to play with.
Show thread四9h ago

@kalleboo I’ve been looking for an open source (MS) Access type thing, and I feel HyperCard is in the same vein.

I’d love something meant to solve problems and entertain. As you say things like drawing adventure games. Or in my case just simple UIs linked up to a simple DB (sqlite).

Me being a full fledged developer with 25 years of experience doesn’t help me if I need to pour 100s of hours into something simple. And Vibing it isn’t the way.

Imho.

Show threadJon Schwenn3h ago

@kalleboo I had thought I was using HyperCard in grade school but I reached out to my old teacher and he mentioned HyperStudo. I had memories of making color cards and didn’t realize HyperCard was only b&w.

This would have been 6-8th grade and we used it for very basic “power point” assignments.